Wonderful good stuff. Outlines an intriguing and colorful world situation well suited to lots of common and fashionable adventure story elements/structures. Not that that's anything new for these articles, but I feel that this one fits the formula particularly nicely.
With the incorporation of steampunk and certain anime-ish elements (swords as big as galley oars), I keep seeing illustrations from G.M. Skarka's "Underworld" RPG book.
These genres fit together surprisingly well, once I struck upon the alt-history angle. Taoism + science + kung-fu = awesome
My playtest session was unrestrained, over-the-top, pulpy fun. I'll have to post a quick AP report...
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people are born with psychic power so massive it breaks their sanity, reshaping reality around them to the whims of their subconcious. Who can stand against absolute power when even those who weild it can't?
Super School
Retired super heroes train those who inherit their powers young, grades K-12, need I say more? Can be done as students or teachers.
I've got a crazy idea that I'd love to develop myself, but I know you would do so much better with it:
A Zombie apocalypse, in which the PCs play the ghosts of those whose bodies have turned into zombies. Only the restless spirits can stop the walking dead. It'd be White Wolf's Orpheus meets Resident Evil. ^____^
I am thinking of taking this, and Badlands Alchemy, and spinning them together for some interesting outcomes.
That sounds like two highly compatible flavors of awesome. You may also find inspiration material in November's installment: Industrial Revolution. It deals with the mechanology and the union movement. And claw hammer escrima
--Dan
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--Eddy Webb, Alternative Product Developer at White Wolf Publishing
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